Dr. Igor Tetko is group leader at the Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München- German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH). He coordinates the Virtual Computational Chemistry Laboratory, http://www.vcclab.org, which provides on-line tools for QSAR/QSPR model development and prediction of biological &physico-chemical properties of molecules. His current interests cover development of in silico ADME/T models, alternative non-animal testing methods for risk assessment with respect to REACH, estimation of the accuracy of predictions. Prior to his current position he was postdoc and then First Assistant at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Dr Tetko received his MSc (cum laude) at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia and PhD at the Institute of Bioorganic & Petrochemistry, Kyiv, Ukraine.